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What Matters Most On Sunday, December 17, 2017

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US President Donald Trump (L) is welcomed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on May 23, 2017. (Thomas Coex/AFP)

Greenblatt 'knows no meeting will happen, even if he asks'

Palestinians won’t meet with Kushner, Greenblatt or any US officials on peace

In wake of US administration’s Jerusalem stance, Abbas aide says, PA adamant in boycotting entire Trump team; PA also says Greenblatt, due this week, hasn’t sought Ramallah meet

A Palestinian demonstrator moves a burning tire during clashes with Israeli forces near an Israeli checkpoint in the West Bank city of Ramallah on December 16, 2017l. (AFP PHOTO / ABBAS MOMANI)

Fatah calls for ‘angry’ protests against US during Pence’s Jerusalem visit

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US President Donald Trump (right) giving a joint statement with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, May 3, 2017. (Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images via JTA)

Furious Palestinians reject White House talk of Western Wall as Israel’s forever

By Eric Cortellessa and Agencies

US envoy to the UN Nikki Haley at the UN Security Council, December 8, 2017 (United Nations)

UN Security Council considering resolution to annul US Jerusalem decision

Vote possible in next few days; US veto would stop move; Turkey has vowed to go to non-binding General Assembly if thwarted at Security Council

PM applauds US for ‘pushing back’ against UN moves on Israel

Arab Israelis protest US Jerusalem recognition in Jaffa, north

Nazareth’s Muslim mayor reinstates Christmas

Barry and Honey Sherman (YouTube)

Family of billionaire Canadian Jewish couple refutes murder-suicide claims

By Marc Braibant

‘Shocked’ children of Barry and Honey Sherman ‘think it’s irresponsible that police sources have reportedly advised the media of a theory’ they firmly reject

Workers of the Teva company protest against the company plan to lay off hundreds of employees, outside the TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries building in Jerusalem, December 17, 2017. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)

Teva workers barricade themselves in Jerusalem plant, burn tires

200 pharma employees and family members lock themselves in facility, prevent managers from leaving as protests against layoffs sweep country

Workers of the Teva company protest against the company plan to lay off hundreds of employees, in Petah Tikva, December 17, 2017. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Airport, ministries, companies reopen after Teva ‘solidarity’ strike

By ToI Staff and AFP

Workers of the Teva company protest against the company plan to lay off hundreds of employees, outside the TEVA Pharmaceutical Industries building in Jerusalem, December 14, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hebrew media reviewAddicted to Teva

By Joshua Davidovich

Future Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (right) of the conservative People's Party shakes hands with incoming vice-chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache of the far-right Freedom Party during a joint press conference to unveil their joint program on December 16, 2017, in Vienna, Austria. (AFP PHOTO / ALEX HALADA)

Austrian far-right Freedom Party gets interior, defense, and foreign ministries

By ToI Staff and Agencies

New coalition government to block Turkey from joining EU, crack down on illegal migrants; Freedom Party’s Strache supports moving embassy to Jerusalem but won’t break EU consensus

European far-right leaders get together for anti-EU bid

By AP

Heinz-Christian Strache, from neo-Nazi youth to Austria’s next vice-chancellor

By AFP

Defender of Spicer’s Hitler remark seen as top GOP pick for N Dakota Senate race

By AP and ToI Staff

A Security Council meeting on November 15, 2017. (UN/Kim Haughton)

Live updates (closed)

Security Council to vote tomorrow on annulling US moves on Jerusalem — report

By Tamar Pileggi

Proposed resolution drafted by Egypt would invalidate any decision regarding Jerusalem contradicting previous UN decisions on the holy city

7:35 pm

Palestinian officials deny reports Abbas invited to Iran this week
7:02 pm

Rocket fired from Gaza strikes home in Negev town
6:51 pm

Rocket sirens blare in Gaza-adjacent Israeli towns

A photo of a suspected explosive device police said was discovered strapped to a Palestinian by Border Police officers outside the Samaria Military Court in the West Bank, on December 17, 2017. (Police Spokesperson)

Palestinian arrested outside West Bank military court with pipe bombs

Sappers defuse explosives, one of which was strapped to suspect’s body; would-be attacker was stopped at entrance by Israeli forces

Gabon arrests dozens after stabbing over Trump Jerusalem move

By AFP and ToI Staff

Indonesia clerics urge US boycott as 80,000 protest Jerusalem recognition

By AP and ToI Staff

8 killed in pre-Christmas suicide bomb attack on Pakistan church

Rabbi Slomo Koves, right, and a participant at Chabad Hungary's 2015 Hanukkah on Ice event take selfies at Budapest's City Park Ice Rink, December 6, 2015. (Courtesy of EMIH/via JTA)

Rabbis on skates!

In Budapest, Hanukkah comes out of the shadows and onto the ice rink

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In a post-socialist society, a public menorah lighting bridges gaps between Jews young and old, secular and religious

An inside view of the synagogue in Casale Monferrato, Italy, which dates to the 16th century. (Wikimedia Commons/via JTA)

It’s always Hanukkah in this picture-perfect Italian town

By Ruth Ellen Gruber

Haim at Way Out West, 2013 in Gothenburg, Sweden (Kim Metso, CC-BY-SA, via wikipedia)

Bright spotsThis year, a girl band leads the Hanukkah vid hit parade

By Tracy Frydberg

Israelis holding signs and shout slogans during a protest against the corruption of the government in Tel Aviv on December 16, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

In Tel Aviv, anti-Netanyahu protest becomes a civics lesson for kids

By Raoul Wootliff

Among demonstrators thronging Rothschild Boulevard calling for the prime minister to resign, hundreds of children learn about participatory democracy and corruption

Thousands of people march through Tel Aviv to protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who is embroiled in two corruption investigations on December 16, 2017 (Raoul Wootliff/Times of Israel)

Thousands protest in Tel Aviv against Netanyahu over graft probes

By Raoul Wootliff

My gay son is no sinner

When the Orthodoxy my boy had loved rejected him, what could he do but walk away?

Sivan Rahav Meir

At 104, Rabbi Steinman died too young

The rabbi’s true foes were arrogance, and egoism, not Israeli secular society

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American comedian Jerry Seinfeld performs in Tel Aviv on December 19, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Comedy rootsSeinfeld: Israeli Jews not as whiny as New York Jews

A view of the mosaic of transfiguration which covers the surface of 46 meters square inside the basilica of the monastery of Saint Catherine is shown on Saturday, Dec 16, 2017 in South Sinai, Egypt. (AP/Samy Magdy)

Egypt reopens ancient Sinai library housing 4th-century New Testament

Former tourism minister Stas Misezhnikov arrives at Hermon Prison in northern Israel to begin his 15-month sentence, on December 17, 2017. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)

Ex-tourism minister begins prison sentence for corruption

A screenshot from a segment aired on Hadashot TV news, December 15, 2017, on the IDF's captivity training program for elite units. (Screen capture: Hadashot news)

Beatings, threats, humiliations: How the IDF trains soldiers for enemy captivity

Sensors on tanks will send an alert when maintenance is required (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)

From smartphones to smart tanks, the IDF is raiding the civilian sector for tech

By Shoshanna Solomon

Brig. Gen. (res.) Kamil Abu Rokon, current head of the Defense Ministry's Border Crossing Authority, named Israel's next military liaison to the Palestinians on December 17, 2017. (Dana Shraga/Defense Ministry)

Kamil Abu Rokon named Israel’s next military liaison to Palestinians

By Judah Ari Gross

Illustrative: A Magen David Adom ambulance. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

3 teens injured, 1 seriously, as unexploded ordnance goes off

By Judah Ari Gross

Asa Kasher attends a conference at the Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, June 11, 2017. (Flash90)

Author of IDF ethics code said helping break ‘Breaking the Silence’

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